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CLAY COLLEGE
STOKE

Helping the next generation

WELCOME TO CLAY COLLEGE

Clay College, Stoke, offers a skills-based, full-time ceramics course taught by potters who make a living through ceramics, something unique in the UK. We are proposing that from September 2017, a two-year full-time course will be run for 14 students, with each year consisting of three 15-week terms.

The emphasis will be on core skills and the use of materials. Students will be taught all aspects of design, throwing, glazing, kiln building and firing, alongside traditional hand building and decoration techniques. This will be augmented by modules focusing on business and marketing which will offer students the opportunity to become self-sufficient, developing their own business model to suit their work and sufficiently skilled to join a work force in a production pottery.

Alongside the course, we envisage hosting an artist-in-residence and overseas exchange programme, running evening classes, masterclasses, and lectures for the public together with a programme of community engagement to reach young people living in the local area.

Take a look at our products and services

Classes

We provide different courses ranging from evening classes to intensive masterclasses.

Full Time Course

We offer a full time course which focuses on learning core skills and increasing your knowledge of using different materials

Our Shop

Visit our shop and support Clay College by purchasing products created by our students.

Adopt A Potter

Visit our shop and support Clay College by purchasing products created by our students.